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The Moscow Art Theatre's (MAT) production of The Seagull in 1898, directed by Constantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, was a crucial milestone for the fledgling theatre company that has been described as "one of the greatest events in the history of Russian theatre and one of the greatest new developments in the history of world drama."[1] It was the first production in Moscow of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, though the play had been performed unsuccessfully in St. Petersburg two years earlier. Nemirovich, who was a friend of Chekhov's, overcame the writer's refusal to allow the play to appear in Moscow after its earlier failure and convinced Stanislavski to direct the play for their innovative and newly-founded Moscow Art Theatre.[2] The production opened on 17 December 1898. The MAT's success was due to the fidelity of its delicate representation of everyday life, its intimate, ensemble playing, and the resonance of its mood of despondent uncertainty with the psychological disposition of the Russian intelligentsia of the time.[3] To commemorate this historic production, which gave the MAT its sense of identity, the company to this day bears the seagull as its emblem.[4]
- Material for The Seagull
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